Releasing the potential of health services: translating clinical leadership into healthcare quality improvement

A great deal of talk and effort is devoted to developingleadership and clinical leadership in the health service,for example through the work of the NHS LeadershipCentre.The policy change, which has increased thelikelihood of private companies, with shareholdersas well as patients to consider, contracting for NHSservices means an ever-increasing variety of healthservice providers producing models of leadership ratherthan just the traditional models within the NHS.